Read Works
Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Compare/contrast Genres
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use fiction and nonfiction books from a classroom library to identify the similarities and differences between fiction and nonfiction and to create a Venn diagram...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Snowflake Bentley as a Framing Text for Multigenre Writing
Using Snowflake Bentley as a model, students create a working definition of multigenre text and then use that definition to create their own multigenre piece about winter or another theme.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District:teaching Summarization to Struggling Students
A lesson designed to teach learners how to recognize an effective summary. Following the lesson, several practice fiction and nonfiction texts are available in both English and Spanish for grades 3, 4, and 5. Answer key provided. [PDF]
Read Works
Read Works: Compare and Contrast 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on comparing and contrasting through which students learn how to compare two items using key terms, compare and contrast two non-fiction texts on similar topics, and compare and...
Read Works
Read Works: Fact and Opinion 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on fact and opinion through which students learn how to identify facts and opinions in different fiction genres. Students also use non-fiction texts to identify and verify facts and...
Other
Siu Edwardsville: Professional Development Center: Lesson Plan: Inference [Pdf]
Lesson teaching the use of word selection, context, structure, and specific references in making inferences within non-fiction texts.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 6: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Sixth graders will learn about the influence of family expectations and religious values on the development of one's personal identity. Students will also learn how reading informational texts in coordination with literary texts can...
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Explicit Information
[Free Registration/Login Required] Designed to teach students to identify explicit information in nonfiction and fiction texts. Lessons are based on the books Deserts (A True Book-Ecosystems) by Darlene R. Stille and The Stories Huey...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: All About Posters
As young writers become more skilled through the Writers Workshop lessons, they can begin working to become more skilled with non-fiction writing. A series of mini-lessons, graphic organizers, and samples of student work are all provided.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Snowball Note Making and Summarizing
In this lesson, students will engage in this post-reading strategy for a nonfiction or a fiction piece. Each student will take notes on a four-square square graphic organizer about something they already knew, something they found...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Discovering Ourselves in Literature and Life
This lesson plan, provided by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), encourages pupils to evaluate literature in a variety of multimedia formats and answer the question, "Who Am I?," Students are then asked to...